Arkady Andreasyan

Arkadi Georgijewitsch Andreasjan (also Andriasjan; Armenian Արկադի Գեորգիի Անդրեասյան; Russian Аркадий Георгиевич Андреасян; born August 11, 1947 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR ) is a former Soviet- Armenian football player and current coach.

Life and career

Arkadi Andreasjan was born in 1947 in an Armenian family in Baku. After he attended the football school of Neftschi Baku, he went from 1965-1966 to Shirak Gyumri. He then moved to the big club Ararat Yerevan. He was not included in the senior squad and came to 1967 to no inserts in the league. Therefore, he moved in 1968 to Sevan Oktemberjan before in 1969 he again returned to Ararat, where he was given a second chance. This time Andreasjan prevailed and became a regular player. In 1971 he was then appointed to the selection of the Soviet national football team. In the 1973 season under coach Nikita Simonyan he could with the club 's greatest success to date, the Soviet double, consisting of Soviet Championship title and Soviet Cup win. In 1975 a second Cup win with Ararat. In 1978, he then finished his active football career.

As a coach, he went in 1979 to Kotayk Abovyan, until he returned to Ararat as a trainer from 1981 to 1983. After an intermezzo at Spartak Oktemberjan and a second " term ", he coached from 1986 to 1989 again his old club Ararat. 1992 to 1993 he coached Zvartnots Echmiadzin and then went to Lebanon to Beirut Homenmen, an association of local Armenian minority.

From 1996 to 2003, he took over for the third time as coach at Ararat Yerevan. In 2005, he coached then Lernain Artsakh from Stepanpakert, 2007-2008 MIKA Ashtarak.

In 2009, he then returned to become the fourth time to Ararat back. A scandal it caused in early 2011 when he received a photojournalist during the game Pjunik Yerevan - Ararat Yerevan attacked and beat, so this had to be hospitalized. Although Andreasjan had to pay a fine, but remained in office until early 2012 as a coach.